Environmental Audit Committee
22 April 2026
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Environmental Audit Committee House of Commons
00:01 - 01:11
Speaker 1
Two, one. Order. Order. Well, welcome everybody to the latest meeting of the environmental audit committee, as part of our new study into air quality with the seventy fifth anniversary of the Clean Air Act. Delighted to say that we have a distinguished panel in front of us today, Sir Stephen Holgate, the professor of immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton, Professor Roy Harrison from the Queen Elizabeth II Centenary, professor of environmental health at the University of Birmingham and professor Anne Hansel, professor of environmental epidemiology at the University of Leicester.
I'm very pleased to welcome all three of you. If I could start with yourself, sir Stephen. Just invite you to introduce yourself and your particular area of interest and expertise with regard to the study that we're doing today
01:11 - 01:47
Speaker 2
thank you chair and thank you for inviting us so my name is Stephen Holgate I'm a research professor in the University of Southampton with a clinical background interested in respiratory diseases such as bronchial asthma and COPD. I've had a long time association with air quality and was the first chair of the committee of medical effects of air pollutants and have recently just stepped down from six years of running the UKRI Clean Air Champion activity for the Clean Air SPF research program that the MRC and other parts of UKRI have been running.
01:48 - 01:50
Speaker 1
Thank you very much. Professor Hansell.
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